March 18th, 2013

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Yeah, umm… yeah, no… Yeah, sorry it looks like Disembodied Narratorbot X-15735 isn’t working. Sorry, Gary Lactus here. Right. This is SILENCE!#53… No 54. SILENCE!#54. Me and Beast read some comics and talked about them. Get excited! Woooo! Cor! I’m waving my arms around merrily! What a lovely time we’re all about to have as we listen.

More crying superheroes. And laughing superheroes. There’s a Neal Adams Batman story somewhere, where he’s laughing all over the page in that exaggerated Adams style and it’s pretty terrifying.

That story ‘The kid who collected Spider-Man’ where Pete is crying was pretty heart-wrenching. Perhaps a new regular feature for your radio show could feature a half-hour segment describing a back issue you have found with a crying superhero. That would be just brilliant.

You seem to have accidentally uploaded your utterly shambolic rehearsal for Silence! instead of the actual show itself, you cretins.
I suspect it’s no coincidence that Disembodied Narratorbot X-15735 ‘isn’t working’ after it had to endure that farrago…

Avengers Arena sounds great and I’m definitely going to read that. I think I’ve mentioned it before but the original novel of Battle Royale is the most insanely entertaining piece of pulp fiction ever, even if you’ve already seen the film

It’s really a very well done piece of exploitation. It
captures the angst and interpersonal relationshizzle that characterise so much of the Marvel Universe, whilst still being a zippy, brutal little action comic. It’s definitely a grower too.

Avengers Arena has a bunch of characters who I’d have thought were from Runaways or X-Gang or something, but I think most of them were actually created for the series. Good stuff, other than presuming one of the survivors will surely be X-23?

On the subject of teens in comics, I recently found some old issues of Marvel’s Wolfpack, a cross somewhere between The Wire, TMNT and The Cosby Show. Crack is Wack! I like the fact that the dude in the wheelchair is nicknamed ‘Wheels’.

Yeah, sorry about the fuckup with the recording. In the actual proper version which didn’t record I made a hilarious comparison between Mylo Xyloto and Ben Elton’s We Will Rock You. Alas it’s lost forever.

I don’t mind the fill in issues, as long as Kev draws the majority of installments – it seems I’ve become spoiled for his art.

Apparently, Riccardo Burchielli from Vertigo’s DMZ and who recently drew the #0 issue of Dial H will be drawing a couple of issues next.

Also, is everything alright with Disembodied Narratorbot X-15735 yet? Hope it hasn’t pemanently joined the legions of Ultron, or else you guys should start fearing for your lifes, lest you be stabbed in the back by a scimitar or something. As in a DC comic.

I think I’ll wait on the trades for Avengers Arena. The Battle Royale setup’s a good ‘un, and I actually quite like that they straight-up acknowledged it with that first cover. I also like that it seems like a comic with a beginning, middle and end. BUT SURELY NICO FROM RUNAWAYS WON’T DIE?!?! And, as mentioned, X-23, as she’s in Marvel Vs Capcom 3 and I can’t imagine Marvel killing off a character they are trying to establish in other mediums?

Dennis Hopeless, though, is that an odd pseudonym like ‘Matt Fraction’ suggesting he’s some kind of Warren Ellis character, or is it just a genuinely good real name?

I occasionally think about using a pseudonym – CSA allus efter me, ken? (obviously not) – like “Matt Anglo,” or something. Y’know, if I was ever to write MarvelMan. Maybe a different one for each character: “Matt Ditko,” “Matt Shuster,” “Matt Neary, Marks & Frank.”